Usually means: Inability to distinguish musical pitches.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word tone deafness:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. tone deafness: Merriam-Webster
  2. tone-deafness: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tone deafness: Collins English Dictionary
  4. tone deafness: Vocabulary.com
  5. tone-deafness: Wordnik
  6. tone deafness: Dictionary.com
  7. Tone Deafness, Tone deafness: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. tone deafness: Rhymezone
  9. tone deafness: FreeDictionary.org
  10. tone deafness: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. tone-deafness, tone deafness: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tone-deafness, tone deafness: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. tone deafness: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Tone deafness: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. tone deafness: Medical dictionary
  4. Tone deafness: Drug Medical Dictionary

(Note: See tone-deaf as well.)

Definitions from WordNet (tone deafness)

noun:  an inability to distinguish differences in pitch


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